I am interviewed by B. Jesse Clark in Race, Poverty and the Environment.  Their is a rich discussion of the Bus Riders Union organizing work, its strategic and tactical direction and its newest initiative the Transit Riders for Public Transportation to impact the Federal Surface Transportation Act. 

This interview discusses the Bus Riders Union inspiration from the Black Liberation Movement:

"Our organizing and political viewpoint has been shaped and influenced
by the Black Liberation Movement in the United States. The struggle for
black people’s democratic and civil rights has been shaped by the
transportation justice struggles—from the horrendous Plessey vs.
Ferguson decision that legalized “Jim Crow” to the 1955 Montgomery Bus
Boycott that was the first mass blow against it."

The interview describes the tactical flexability that has been a cornerstone of the Bus Riders Union campaign: 

"We start from our overall goal: we are trying to build a progressive,
independent, internationalist informed left in the United States. The
Bus Riders Union is a comprehensive progressive mass organization on
wheels. We see the electoral, grassroots, and legal objectives as
tactics in our overall game plan—often moving together, sometimes
emphasizing one tactic because it has more traction, but quickly
returning to another tactic to move forward. We have no rigid view that
one tactic is more important than another. Our primary objective is to
expand our base and to strengthen the influence of the communities that
we represent—but tactical flexibility has been one of the keys to our
experiment."

Check out the entire interview:  http://urbanhabitat.org/rights/busriders